In unroole a "Channel" is a logical grouping of content that cannot be shared between other channels or accounts. Each channel can be thought of as a T.V. or Video Streaming channel. A channel is a combination of content from both it's parent account as well as its own unique content. Each channel has the following properties:

utilize shared content available on an account.

Provides a logical grouping of content that is not shared between other accounts or channels.

Control when the documents will be publish and to whom the documents will be published to.

Settings

Mobile channel settings

From the settings you can choose 4 images from your asset library to display in each of the 4 ad spots. You can click on the 'landscape' or 'portrait' links to see where each spot is located.

Channel Management

Channel Properties

Website channel properties

Name

Description

Name

Name of the channel.

Subdomain

The domain of this channel.

Logo

Choose a logo for your channel.

Domains

The domain for which you will use it to point to the subdomain above, for details please see Vanity Domain.

Creating a New Channel

Login to your profile and select the account you want the website to associate with from the top navigation.

Select Account

Navigate to 'Channels' under 'Accounts' from the left navigation bar.

Navigate to Channels

Click 'Create a new channel'.

Choose the channel type you want to create, for this example we will use website, so click 'Website'.

Choose Website for channel type

Complete the mandatory fields, then click 'Submit'. Most of the fields are pretty straight forward, the only one you might need more detail is Vanity Domains.

Fields for website channel

After the successful creation, you will be redirect to the channel dashboard. If you have seeded your channel you can click on 'View Live Site' on the right of the top navigation bar to see the website. If you did not seed your channel, you can navigate to 'Pages' under 'Channel Content' to create pages for your channel.

Channel Pages

Removing a Channel

Remove a channel

Removing a channel will remove all the content in that channels, including all the Pages, Layouts, Themes, Templates. The removal of a channel cannot be undone, so be very sure before you remove a channel.
To remove a channel:

Navigate to the account which the channel belongs to.

Navigate to 'Channels' under 'Account'.

Find the channel you want to delete and click on the icon with the hammer.

Click the delete button.

Two more popups will show up to confirm the deletion.

If you really sure you want to remove the channel click ok for both popups and the channel will be removed.

Examples

The following illustrates a few simple scenarios where users can use the different channel types to achieve their goals.

Promotional Websites

Goals:

A marketing company "Green Guerilla Designs" manages a number of client brands

Each client has a number of promotional websites that must be created.

Each client has a unique branding look and feel that must be adhered to.

To achieve the maximum amount of shared content between promotions without duplicating content:

This channel utilizes the shared data(ex. Marketing Documents) used by the website so that all the sales person on A-series product can have these documents on their iPad to use on the go and they stay in-sync with the website.